Hi, I am in the market for 8440p and 8440w with 1600x900 display. It is difficult to find a model with I5 520m (I want to go with 520m instead of 620m that might have the heat issues or power consumption)
I recently tried to customize elitebook 8440w and others, I realized the starting price has been gone up around $300.
I tried to customize elitebook 8440w and price change is somewhat frustration compared to pre-built.
Does anyone have any idea for that ?
Is it because of new elitebook,(maybe 2nd gen) released ?
I found some elitebook model doesn't include vPro with a little bit cheaper price. Is Intel vPro big deal ?
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the elitebooks are probably going to be upgraded in terms of hardware (new i7 cpus, and HOPEFULLY A RADEON 5700/5800 for the 8540p and maybe a lower one for the 8440p) since theres not going to be a new series (8#50 or so) until late 2011/2012.
regarding vpro - you cant "need" vpro or not "need" it, its like the more common centrino tag a set of features that have to be present in order to be qualified for having that centrino vpro tag. these features are cpus with vpro technology (mainly for virtualization - unless you really need it, you dont need it), chipsets, intel AMT, wlan, flash memory etc.
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Thanks for your comment
here is the link for no vPro on Elitebook 8440w:
http://h71016.www7.hp.com/MiddleFra...=3154&BaseId=32188&oi=E9CED&BEID=19701&SBLID=
What is this model ? -
obviously this is one without the vpro tag, so something required for the tag is not present. maybe its that hp mobile broadband.
but as i said, if you dont exactly know that you need a vpro model, you almost certainly dont, so dont worry. -
This morning I got two different quotes from hp sales person.
They are pretty similar CTO 8440w but price differ about $300.
One strange thing is that higer spec one(without vPro) is cheaper than lower one(with vPro).
Do I need to negotiate the price with sales person?
How many percent is the discount possible ?
I am being frustrated...
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As a Linux user, I've found it quite worthwhile having AMT -- with it, I can remotely power up, power down, and hard-reboot the thing, and can even get a serial console (including the Grub menu) over the network. It's awesome for grabbing stacktraces of various problems that kill both local and ssh consoles. I just wish AMD had an equivalent.
EDIT: to clarify, "Centrino 2 vPro" means AMT is enabled.
CTO Elitebook price is changed higher ?
Discussion in 'HP' started by iamthingy, Mar 4, 2010.